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Example out of "Human being of Earth, it is high time for you to change for the better and for the good ..." by Eduard Albert Meier:
... Although the climate change triggered by humankind cannot be stopped any more through this, yet the destructions, demolishments, the chaos and the catastrophes can be gotten under control somewhat through rationality and intellect, for example by rebuilding natural wetlands and ceasing the over-exploitation of the planet as well as of nature and fauna and flora, because only in this way the worst can still be avoided. ...
... The overpopulation resp. the world population must be most urgently gotten under control and reduced by means of a worldwide controlled birth stop, because only through this can all the in every respect increasing needs of humankind, and the further destructions connected with it, finally be brought to an end. ...